Updated 11.25
British Prime Minister David Cameron's former head of communications, Andy Coulson has been jailed for 18 months for his part in phone hacking at the News of the World.
Coulson, who is a former editor at the now defunct paper was convicted last week.
Rebekah Brooks - who Coulson replaced at the News of the World - was cleared of all charges.
Former Number 10 spin doctor Coulson showed no obvious emotion as he was sentenced and sent down to the cells.
The judge told him, and four other defendants: "I do not accept ignorance of the law provides any mitigation.
"The laws of protection are given to the rich, famous and powerful as to all."
Impact & profit
He said he had taken into account the impact on the lives of those whose phones were hacked, and the profit made from the crimes.
He noted that there were many thousands of hacks over the years, involving hundreds of victims.
Coulson was sentenced alongside three former colleagues and private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who all admitted their part in the phone hacking plot last year.
News Of The World news editor Greg Miskiw (64); chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck (52); and James Weatherup (58) have all admitted one general count of conspiring together and with others to illegally access voicemails between October 2000 and August 2006.
Co-accused's sentences
Mulcaire (43) was first convicted of phone hacking with News Of The World royal reporter Clive Goodman in 2006 and served a prison sentence.
Weatherup was given a four-month suspended sentence, while Mulcaire was given a six-month suspended sentence.
The judge told Mulcaire he was "truly the lucky one", saying the full extent of his hacking was known at the time of his previous sentencing.
According to Mulcaire's notes, Miskiw tasked him 1,500 times, Thurlbeck 261 times and Weatherup 157 times, the court heard.
No need
Mr Justice Saunders told them: "All the defendants that I have to sentence, save for Mr Mulcaire, are distinguished journalists who had no need to behave as they did to be successful.
"They all achieved a great deal without resorting to the unlawful invasion of other people's privacy. Those achievements will now count for nothing."
After sentencing, David Cameron said: "It's right that justice should be done and no-one is above the law."
Eight of the 11 jurors who heard the case returned to court to hear the verdicts.
